October 26, 2020 – Community Health Systems, Inc. (CHS) (Franklin, TN) announced that a subsidiary of the company has completed the sale of 171-bed San Angelo Community Medical Center (San Angelo, TX) and its associated assets to subsidiaries of Shannon Health System.
San Angelo Community Medical Center and Community Medical Associates will become the new Shannon South Campus. They will now operate as Shannon South and Shannon Clinic South.
All Community Medical Center and Community Medical Associates providers and staff became part of Shannon following the close of the transaction. The system said that patient care at all sites will proceed as normal, and patients may still receive care from their current providers.
Shannon said it introduced its Epic Medical Record System in the CMA offices starting October 24. Previous patient records are still available and patients will also have access to the Shannon MyChart Patient Portal to view their health information, according to the health system.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.